Oppolzer - Informatik / Blog

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> From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List
> [mailto:ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of P.G.
> Sent: 18 November 2011 16:37
> To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Conditional assembly for COBOL?
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> On Nov 17, 2011, at 14:35, Bernd Oppolzer wrote:
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> > The PL/1 preprocessor is IMHO the most powerful tool to do such things,
> > but maybe you don't have it, if you have no PL/1 licensed.
> >
> > The ASSEMBLER macro processor will not work, because you cannot
> > extract the result and send it to the COBOL compiler, AFAIK.
> >
> > The C preprocessor would work, if you have it. I believe that C belongs to
> > z/OS, so you don't need to license it. But the C preprocessor is very simple
> > and somewhat restricted. Don't know if it serves your needs.
> >
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> I believe that LE is now the C runtime environment, so you can
> run compiled programs without licensing C.  C itself is priced
> separately, and I suspect this applies to the preprocessor.
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Dave Pitts has os/390 & MVS ports of GCC that run with LE

http://www.cozx.com/~dpitts/gcc.html

> > So maybe you will have to write your own. This can be done using REXX or
> > C or any other language - even COBOL. I would use C, others maybe REXX.
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> Or use existing art:
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>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4_%28computer_language%29
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> -- G.
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